[Python-ideas] Preallocated tuples and dicts for function calls

[Jeroen Demeyer]

On 2019-03-08 22:16, Martin Bammer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what about the idea that the interpreter preallocates and preinitializes
> the
>
> tuples and dicts for function calls where possible when loading a module?

The basic premise here is wrong: function calls using the METH_FASTCALL 
convention don't need to allocate any temporary tuple/dict for function 
calls. Of course, not all function calls use METH_FASTCALL, but most of 
them where performance matters do.